intervista ad Emilio Isgro' , giornalista ed artista , sull'Italia d'oggi. Solo le formiche ci potrebbero salvare

NTERVISTA A EMILIO ISGRÒ - DI CORONA PERER(link)

"Sogno una nuova Italia" afferma Emilio Isgrò. "Senza l'operosità delle formiche non sarà possibile costruire niente di nuovo. Ma alla fine vinceranno le formiche". Artista della parola, Isgrò ha individuato chi può rigenerare la decomposizione del linguaggio: la formica. L'artista del concettuale che tutti copiano e dal quale molti hanno imparato il linguaggio della negazione e del silenzio che afferma, spiega perchè e con le sue parole non è certo tenero nel compiere un'analisi del contesto attuale.

L'invasione delle formiche: perchè?
Ho voluto dire qualcosa sulle terre di confine e sull'operosità. Senza quella delle formiche non sarà possibile costruire niente di nuovo. Nè in Sicilia nè altrove.

L'ispirazione è venuta dalle leggi del 2009 in materia di sicurezza. Cosa l'ha scandalizzata?
Ho sentito che eravamo alla vigilia di un nuovo nazismo in Europa, che non dimentichiamolo, conquistò a suo tempo il cuore e le menti di un popolo colto come quello tedesco, considerato all'epoca il più istruito del mondo per il livello delle sue scuole e delle sue università. Figuriamoci cosa può accadere a un popolo come quello italiano (che oltretutto spianò con il fascismo la strada a Hitler) ora che tutte le difese intellettuali sono cadute grazie alla ideologia del mercato...

Pessimista quindi?
Se in nome del puro profitto l'Italia accoglie tutto e il contrario di tutto, spacciando per conoscenza e cultura ciò che è semplice intrattenimento televisivo, c'è poco da stare allegri.

La formica allora chi rappresenta: il nuovo che bussa alle porte dal sud del Mondo?
Rappresenta come dicevo l'operosità. L'invasione delle formiche è l'invasione di chi vuole rischiare e intraprendere in un mondo di morti. Alla fine vinceranno le formiche.

Che dinamiche vede nella cultura italiana?
Apparentemente nessuna, anche se ormai tutti hanno capito che cultura e finanza non sono esattamente la stessa cosa.

La Sicilia: terra madre, di un artista che ha vissuto poi la sua grande stagione d'arte al Nord. Come e in che maniera può aver influenzato le sue scelte artistiche?
Nei primi anni Ottanta, quando fui chiamato a costruire il testo e il progetto dell'"Orestea di Gibellina", dissi chiaro e tondo che la Sicilia non doveva più limitarsi a chiedere, ma doveva piuttosto offrire, dare al Paese un contributo di slancio e di idee che, riscattandola dal suo degrado sociale e civile, si traducesse in pratica in un soccorso al Paese nella sua interezza. Non tutto è andato come avrei pensato...

Che cosa vorrebbe vedere ora?
Una Italia nuova. E un'arte nuova per un Paese non assoggettato unicamente alle mode e ai capricci del gusto.

(Ultimo aggiornamento pagina 14 dicembre 2012)

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arte tedesca , 1869-1860 , Ernst Liebermann

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Arte e scienza si sposano in un bagno di raggi cosmici (clicca x art.)

di Armando Massarenti  , dal Sole24ore dsel 30 nov 09
30 novembre 2009

Entrando a Palazzo delle Esposizioni a Roma, al piano terra ci si trova immersi nella meravigliosa mostra dedicata ad Alexander Calder. È il trionfo di una forma d'arte che ha elevato a poetica un aspetto della fisica. O non sono forse le opere di Calder un continuo, poeticissimo gioco sulla gravità, le forze, la statica, il movimento, gli equilibri, i bilanciamenti, da cui dipende l'effetto di essenzialità e di magica leggerezza?................







orso castano :
arte e scienza possono e devono accoppiarsi. Niente come la affascinante bellezza dell'universo puo' realizzare questa "mission"....

Bunny Harvey [ woman american painter, 20th Century] clicca

 Releasing Forces, 1998

 I Miss It, 2002

 

  Harmonies of the World, 1990  artic echoes 1906   Mind: A Place of Memory, 1987  

fantasy art al femminile: julie bell

immagini fantastiche , vero , ma che ci dicono anche dei simboli e delle atmosfere inconsce di questa artista contemporanea  arte contemporanea, titolo :at battles end Copyright Julie Bell, born 1954 art used with permission

Luigi Spazzapan

in sloveno Lojze Špacapan, (Gradisca d'Isonzo, 18 aprile 1889 – Torino, 18 febbraio 1958) Ha studiato e vissuto a Gorizia sino al 1928, anno in cui si è trasferito a Torino dove è vissuto sino alla sua morte, è stato un pittore italiano, di madrelingua slovena, ritenuto uno dei più importanti esponenti italiani della pittura astratta nel primo dopoguerra. La sua formazione artistica si compì attraverso i numerosi viaggi che intraprese nella sua giovinezza nei maggiori centri della cultura figurativa del tempo fra cui Vienna, Monaco e Parigi gli permisero di accrescere e sviluppare la sua formazione artistica assimilando gli stili delle secessioni, dell'Art Nouveau, del futurismo, dell'espressionismo, fino a intendere precocemente le esperienze dell'astrattismo. La curiosità e la fantasia hanno portato l’artista ad aggiornarsi e confrontarsi con sempre nuovi modi figurativi e per questo, oggi, è unanimemente considerato uno degli artisti italiani più originali ed interessanti della prima metà del Novecento, ma solo pochi critici e collezionisti hanno saputo riconoscere il valore della sua opera mentre era in vita. Uomo tormentato ed impulsivo, perennemente inquieto, Spazzapan era infatti tanto preso dalla sua pittura e dall’ansia di dare libero sfogo alla creazione da non badare affatto alla promozione del suo lavoro.

Jack Kerouac haiku

American Haiku (Copyright 1959) Early morning yellow flowers, thinking about the drunkards of Mexico.................   No telegram today only more leaves fell..........................   Nightfall, boy smashing dandelions with a stick...........   Holding up my purring cat to the moon I sighed.................   Drunk as a hoot owl, writing letters by thunderstorm.....................   Empty baseball field a robin hops along the bench........................   All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head.............................   Crossing the football field coming home from work - the lonely businessman............................   After the shower among the drenched roses the bird thrashing in the bath................................   Snap your finger stop the world - rain falls harder.....................................   Nightfall, too dark to read the page too cold..............................   Following each other my cats stop when it thunders...............................   Wash hung out by moonlight Friday night in May....................................   The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain.....................................   Glow worm sleeping on this flower - your light's on..........................................  

The Northport Haiku (Copyright 1964)

Close your eyes -  Landlord knocking On the back door.....................................   A quiet Autumn night   and these fools Are starting to argue.....................................   Lonely brickwalls in Detroit   Sunday afternoon   piss call..............................     O for Vermont again -   The barn on an Autumn night.................................     Fiddlydee! -   Another day,   Another something-or-other!.....................................     Whatever it is, I quit   -now I'll let my   breath out -.........................................   How many cats they need   around here   For any orgy?.............................................     Tonight I'll lower   my tail -- I've seen them around town...........................................     In Haikkaido a cat   has no luck......................................     Every cat in Kyoto   can see through the fog............................................     The birds start singing but he is in the cat meadows.............................................     I'll climb up a tree and scratch Katapatafataya..........................................     If I go out now,   my paws   will get wet...................................     A car is coming but   the cat knows   It's not a snake..................................     In London-town cats   can sleep  In the butcher's doorway..................................     I should have scratched   that spot before   I started to sleep........................................     Haiku my eyes!   my mother is calling!....................................  

from Book of Haiku (Copyright 1968)

Arms folded  to the moon, Among the cows.....................................   Birds singing  in the dark - Rainy dawn..............................................   Elephants munching  on grass - loving Head side by side........................................   Missing a kick  at the icebox door It closed anyway................................ 

This July evening,  a large frog On my door sill.....................................   Catfish fighting for his life,  and winning, Splashing us all......................................   Evening coming -  the office girl Unloosing her scarf.....................................   The low yellow  moon above the Quiet lamplit house....................................   Shall I say no?  - fly rubbing its back legs.................................   Unencouraging sign  - the fish store Is closed..............................   Nodding against  the wall, the flowers Sneeze....................................   Straining at the padlock,  the garage doors At noon.......................................   The taste  of rain - Why kneel?...................................   The moon, the falling star - Look elsewhere.....................................   The rain has filled  the birdbath Again, almost....................................   And the quiet cat  sitting by the post Perceives the moon.....................................   Useless, useless,  the heavy rain Driving into the sea.......................................   Juju beads on the  Zen manual: My knees are cold.............................................   Those birds sitting  out there on the fence - They're all going to die..............................................   The bottoms of my shoes  are wet from walking in the rain..............................................   In my medicine cabinet,  the winter fly has died of old age.............................................   November - how nasal  the drunken Conductor's call....................................   The moon had  a cat's mustache For a second............................................   A big fat flake  of snow Falling all alone.........................................   The summer chair  rocking by itself In the blizzard.........................................  

from Heaven and Other Poems (Copyright 1977/Posthumous) The little worm  lowers itself from the roof By a self shat thread..........................................

from the novel Desolation Angels (Copyright 1965)

A bubble, a shadow -  woop - The lightning flash.............................   Thunder in the mountains -  the iron Of my mother's love...............................   Mist boiling from the  ridge - the mountains Are clean...................................   Mist before the peak  - the dream Goes on..........................................   as cold   water in a dell   on a dusty tired trail -....................................   Girls' footprints  in the sand - Old mossy pile...................................   Wooden house raw gray - Pink light in the window......................................   Neons, Chinese restaurants  coming on - Girls come by shades.......................................

The Eighth International Conference on Neuroesthetics

 University of California, Berkeley  Saturday, January 17, 2009

"Reflections on mirror neurons : mirror or reality ?"  , usa il traduttore google , sito congresso :  http://plaisir.berkeley.edu/

                                                                    Abstracts

 

Atsushi Iriki "Monkey Inferior Parietal Mirror Neurons Coding Action Semantic Equivalences"

The anterior portion of the inferior parietal area possesses comprehensive representations of actions embedded in behavioral contexts. Mirror neurons, which respond both to self-executed and observed actions, exist in this brain area in addition to those originally found in the pre-motor cortex. We found that parietal mirror neurons responded differentially to identical actions embedded in different contexts. Another type of parietal mirror neuron represents inverse and complementary property of responding equally to different, dissimilar actions made by self and others for an identical purpose. Here, we propose a hypothesis that these sets of inferior parietal neurons constitute neural bases to encode the semantic equivalence of various actions across different agents and contexts.    Pier Francesco Ferrari "From Monkey Mirror Neurons to Behavior"   Mirror neurons belong to a class of neurons found in the premotor and parietal cortices of macaques which activated by both execution and observation of goal-related actions. These neurons would serve the recognition of others’ actions by matching the visual description of an action onto the monkey’s cortical motor representation of that action. The capacity to match the own behavior with that of others has been documented in macaques and other monkeys species by using a paradigm in which the monkey has to recognize when being imitated by a human experimenter. More recent findings show that some mirror neurons could also enable the monkey to detect the motor intention of an individual. They discharged differently during the observation of a grasping act of the experimenter depending on the final goal of the action. A model based on action chains has been hypothesized to explain the behavior of these mirror neurons in the course of their visual discharge. During the observation of a grasping motor act that leads to a specific goal (for example eating) a specific neuronal chain is activated. In the observer, as well as during the motor performance, all the elements of that chains will be activated (for example reaching, grasping, bringing to the mouth, biting). This will therefore allows the observer to activate an internal representation of what, most likely, the acting agent is going to do, also by observing the first elements of the action. The temporary inactivation of this circuit produces impairments in the monkey performance that reflects the incapacity to recruit the proper motor chains for the achievement of a specific motor goal.  It has also been proposed that mirror neurons could be partly responsible of the primate capacity to repeat observed actions (i.e response facilitation and imitation). Several lines of research show that macaque and other monkey species are able to repeat observed familiar actions and basic imitative processes that do not require the acquisition of a new behavior. However, their possible direct role in mimicry has not yet been empirically demonstrated in the monkey. Recently, electroencephalography in newborn macaques has shown that motor areas become active both during the observation and imitation of communicative gestures. Thus, infant macaques are provided at birth with a neuro-physiological mechanism, probably underpinned by mirror neurons, that allow them to understand others’ behaviors and intentions and to tune the own behavior with others in an interactive exchange.   Marco Iacoboni "Mirroring People: Neural Mechanisms of Mirroring in Humans"   My talk will be divided in two parts. In the first one I will review brain imaging findings suggesting that human brain areas that presumably contain mirror neurons are important for imitation and empathy. In the second one, I will discuss recent data obtained using a rare clinical opportunity, that is, electrodes implanted in the depth of the brain of neurological patients. While the electrodes were implanted exclusively for medical reasons, we had the opportunity to measure responses from individual neurons of the human brain. We found mirror neurons in many human brain areas. We also found a new class of mirror neurons that may be important to control unwanted imitation and to differentiate self from other. The depth electrodes data in the human brain suggest that mirror neurons are pervasively represented in the brain and may provide an important cellular mechanism for understanding other minds.    Leonardo Fogassi "The properties of mirror neurons in the light of the organization of the motor system"   The neurophysiological studies of the last two decades have provided evidence that the motor cortex is not simply involved in movement programming and execution, but plays a main role in coding the goal of motor acts. This endows the motor cortex with a storage of motor representations (motor knowledge) that can be addressed by different types of sensory inputs through dedicated parieto-premotor circuits. The matching between sensory input and motor representation allows the emergence of different types of cognitive abilities. An example of the outcome of these matching mechanisms is represented by mirror neurons, found in both ventral premotor and inferior parietal cortex of the monkey. These neurons activate both when the monkey executes a hand or mouth motor act and when it observes a similar motor act performed by another individual. Some of them are activated also by the sound of the motor act (audiovisual mirror neurons). It has been proposed that the mirror neuron system underpins action understanding. More recent studies have demonstrated further properties of mirror neurons. First, they appear to play a very important role in understanding action intention. Second, a percentage of them appear to code also the sector of space in which the observed action is performed, suggesting a possible role decoding social information in order to interact with other individuals. The mirror system does exist also in humans. The frontal and parietal areas activated during action observation are very similar to those containing mirror neurons in monkeys. Several studies demonstrated that in humans the mirror neuron circuit is involved not only in action understanding, but also in other important functions such as imitation, language, and emotion understanding. In addition, it is becoming plausible that this system can be an important tool in rehabilitation of patients with motor impairments.     Turella Luca "Human premotor cortex codes observed goal-related actions irrespective of the physical appearance of the agent"   Although a substantial body of evidence indicates that the “mirror” system chiefly represents the goal of the observed action, findings from a recent neuroimaging study in macaque seem to challenge this view. In particular, it was found that activity within a key “mirror” territory (premotor area F5c) during the observation of hand actions was modulated by the type of agent performing the observed action, i.e., a person in full view or an isolated hand. Area F5c responded for a model acting, but not for a hand-alone acting. This was taken as the demonstration that mirror area F5c was modulated by the physical appearance of the acting agent, even when the goal of the observed action remained the same. Naturally this contrasts with the idea that “mirror” representations are mainly related to the goal of the observed action.  Whereas a variety of neuroimaging studies have brought to the conclusion that a “mirror” system might exist in humans, no studies have investigated whether such system in its entirety or in a specific sector of it (e.g., the possible homologue of monkey area F5c) is differently alerted by the observation of different agents acting. Here I shall report on a study specifically designed to address this question. The results indicate that the ventral premotor cortex is similarly activated by both a model and a hand-alone acting. I shall contend that what is represented within the preemotor cortex is not bounded to the physical appearance of the acting agent, but it is a rather abstract representation centered on the goal of the action.     Corrado Sinigaglia "Enactive Understanding and Motor Intentionality"   Most of our social interactions rest upon our ability to understand the behavior of others. But what is really at the basis of this ability? The standard view is that we understand the behavior of others because we are able to read their mind, to represent them as individuals endowed with mental states such as beliefs, desires and intentions. Without this mindreading ability the behavior of others would be meaningless for us. Over the last few years, however, this view has been undermined by several neurophysiological findings and in particular by the discovery of mirror neurons. The functional properties of these neurons indicate that motor and intentional components of action are tightly intertwined, suggesting that the basic aspects of intentional understanding can be fully appreciated only on the basis of a motor approach to intentionality. The aim of this paper is twofold: to develop this approach in order to account for the crucial role of motor intentionality in action and intention understanding below and before any meta-representational ability, and to shed new light on the ontogeny of mindreading, by explaining how the first forms of understanding in infants may be intentional in nature, even without presupposing any explicit and deliberate mentalizing.     Ilan M Dinstein "The human mirror neuron challenge"   Since the discovery of mirror neurons in the macaque monkey over a decade ago, numerous studies have searched for their human equivalents. This endeavor has proven extremely challenging. The defining characteristic of monkey mirror neurons is that they are selective for particular movements whether observed or executed. We and others have recently used fMRI adaptation and classification techniques in attempts to isolate movement-selective cortical responses in humans. To estimate responses to particular movements we recorded fMRI responses as subjects repeatedly executed or observed a small number of hand movements. In the adaptation study we found that commonly described candidate “mirror system” areas exhibited adaptation (repetition suppression) when the same movement was executed repeatedly or observed repeatedly, a signature of movement selectivity. But there was no evidence for cross-modal selectivity (i.e., adaptation from executed to observed movements or vice versa), as would have been expected of mirror neurons. In the classification study we compared the responses across observation and execution of movement using multivariate pattern classification techniques. Our results showed that candidate human “mirror system” areas responded with distinctly different spatial patterns during the observation and execution of the same hand movement. Both of our studies suggest that fMRI responses in candidate human “mirror system” areas are mostly generated by distinct visual and motor neural populations rather than a single population of mirror neurons. While mirror neurons are likely to exist in humans, they seem to comprise only a minority of the neurons in “mirror system” areas. Our studies emphasize the difficultly in studying human mirror neurons and question the conclusions of previous fMRI studies on the matter. We suggest that finding a reliable methodology for isolating their responses in humans is essential to substantiate hypotheses regarding their role in understanding the actions/intentions of others, feeling empathy, learning by imitation, and understanding language.

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